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French movies, like U.S. movies, have their own highly stylized view of life. But the French, with their sharper attention to the way human beings normally behave, often manage to make their film conventions look lifelike. The real pleasure in this picture comes from watching Actor Raimu's very human vacillation between shame and pride in his bastard grandson...
Congress' inclination was to let 'er go and wipe out almost all controls. The people had screamed when the House emasculated OPA; but House members went home for recess and did not change their minds. An even sharper bill, taking the lid off almost everything, passed the Senate last week by an overwhelming majority...
...liberal Christian churches have silently come round to the Unitarian view of Servetus on the oneness of God, and thus it has ceased to be a live issue. Meanwhile, during the period in which orthodoxy was catching up with liberal thought, the liberals were advancing onward to new and sharper issues, and today the crucial issue about which they speak and think is that of supernaturalism v. naturalism, the issue of two worlds v. one, and, as you would expect, the Unitarian stress is again on the scientific outlook...
...sweeps all before him except the final prize, the ivory-fair Roxane. His winning love speeches he puts into the mouth of a handsome dolt, for her sake. The motif is noble, yet it shrinks to the simple moral that it takes more than a sharp tongue, a sharper sword, and a magnificent soul to convince the right woman. This is not sound, inspired drama, nor is Rostand to be rated as a major dramatic poet. But the theatre thrives on striking situations and instantaneous effects, and of these Rostand is the master...
...there is only one certain class of men in the Navy who disapprove of the new-type Navy uniform suggested, and these are the "sour old regulars." Gentlemen, we believe that well over 70% of the reserves agree with us when we say that there isn't a sharper looking uniform in the service for enlisted men than that which the Navy has today. ... So don't hurry to throw that old sea bag to the deep...